Happy Holidays: The Expanse Week in Review

In this blog series, we report on the production progress and other news of The Expanse each week. We collect the latest social media and press activity from the show’s production team, cast, and the community. We hope this series is useful for those who are not able to closely monitor social media but who want an easy way to catch up on all the latest Expanse updates each week.

To catch up on the previous week of updates, check out our last post here.

Production

This week in production news marks final filming activity for 2018 and our final Week in Review of 2018, as well. We’re also introduced to additional lesser-known, but vital, members of the crew and teased with info about Bobbie’s arc in Season 4.

Kenn Fisher of the Production Office let’s us know that there is a lot of hard logistical work that goes on behind-the-scenes, often handled by Kristie and Pazz – the 1st and 2nd ADs (Assistant Directors) – a round of applause for their contributions to The Expanse.

The production team frequently have dogs “assisting” them. It makes the environment so much less stressful (and they are adorable!).

Magali Simard, Film Sector Development Officer for the City of Toronto, visited the set this week and offered her support for the show and the fans. We hear that fans of The Expanse will be seeing more of Canada in the upcoming season as the show films on location near Toronto!

Jeremy Benning (Director of Photography) highlighted two focus pullers on Instagram, calling out their great work on the show. The job of a focus puller is to make sure that cameras are always focused on what they need to be, it can be incredibly difficult at times and often doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Shout out to Roy Boris and Craig Morgan.

Media

io9 released their “Best and Worst Television Moments of 2018” list this week, featuring a moment from Season 3 in the “best” section (we won’t spoil which). This list is full of heavy spoilers for all sorts of TV shows, so beware!

Dominic Audy reported to “Everything The Expanse” that Seasons 1-2 have been taken off of the Canadian streaming service Crave. Crave was the last international streaming service where The Expanse was available. Hopefully, this means that it will be coming to Amazon Prime for international viewers soon.

We wish our weekend involved Tiamat’s Wrath. Daniel Abraham shows off the inside cover for the eighth Expanse book on Twitter.

That’s all for this week, folks. We hope that your holidays are wonderful. Check back next year for our first Week in Review for 2019 and thank you for all of your support for The Expanse Lives since we launched in September. We’ve got lots planned for 2019 that we can’t wait for you to see, so stay tuned, folks!

For those interested, our detailed record of Expanse-related web activity for this month (assembled by SkalmanIsDaMan) is available here. As always, if we missed something you think belongs in this article, please get in touch with us and let us know!